Favors for the Big Day
Written by Natasha Bourlin
Photos by Courtney Aaron Photography
Offering favors to wedding guests and wedding parties has long been a tradition. Take-home tokens of appreciation for participating in a couple’s nuptials allow memories to flourish every time family and friends make use of the gifts. Here are some ideas from local experts on what wedding favors are trending for 2019 and how to present them.
Wedding coordination by Liane McCombs. Venue is West Shore Café & Inn in Homewood.
Wedding party wonders
Head to local distillery The Depot in Reno for bottles of locally crafted spirits for your bridal party and groomsmen. Several spirits ranging from bourbon to gin can be found in display-worthy bottles that serve as personal gifts based on a recipient’s taste. To send off the wedding parties with a bit of Nevada pride, try The Depot’s Amer Depot, an herb-, root-, and spice-infused libation that’s a tribute to Nevada’s Basque heritage and culture. Thanks to the distillers at The Depot, wedding parties can continue the celebration long after the couple is honeymoon bound.
Wink Lash Studio + Bath Bar in Reno carries four different colors of soft, lightweight robes and cozy towel wraps that make great, long-lasting keepsakes the wedding party also can use to get ready on the Big Day. Wink also offers gold, silver, and rose-gold jewelry that can serve as gifts for the mothers of the bride or groom or the bridal party. Giving a spa package filled with relaxing bubble bath, bath bombs, and salts is another option.
Gifts for the guests
Owners of Two Birds Coordination Chani Knight and Melia Shamblin share trending ideas for 2019, such as giving guests succulents that live on past the Big Day. Prepackaged desserts serve as tasty edible takeaways, and drink accessories such as wine stoppers that resemble cake toppers, or heart-shaped bottle openers are seeing a lot of favor among wedding guests lately.
For couples on tighter budgets, gift items may be used in the wedding. Monogrammed or artfully decorated glasses, wedding-themed coasters, and personalized candles are a few suggestions from the wedding-planning duo.
When packaging favors, less always is more, they also say. If bottle openers are the keepsakes, tie them onto a variety pack of beers, or wrap eye-catching bows around a set of coasters and incorporate them into the table display.
Sweets from the sweethearts
Dorinda’s Chocolates in Reno can prettily package and personalize truffles with names, initials, symbols, or dates. The chocolatiers also create two- or four-piece boxes filled with the personalized truffles, or with assorted flavors, such as Dorinda’s popular sea salt caramels, or heart-shaped toasty blonds. Also worth noting: Bigger orders get better price breaks.
Dorinda’s Chocolates
Handmade confections from Crack’d Toffee can be presented in specially sized favor boxes that can be personalized for the couple. With mouthwatering varieties such as original semisweet, dark, white, and dark-chocolate-coffee toffee, guests can gobble up these goodies while reminiscing about the wedding.
In the market for favors? Visit these area entrepreneurs for a bounty of ideas to gift to friends and family on the Big Day.
Natasha Bourlin is a Reno-based freelance writer who loves a good wedding favor.
